On Thu, 2019-10-31 at 22:14 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Fri, 2019-10-25 at 12:05 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
On Fri, 2019-10-25 at 19:03 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
3.16.76-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
This seems more like an enhancement than a bug fix.
Is this really the type of patch that is appropriate for stable?
Apparently so:
v4.14.135: eba797dbf352 KVM: x86/vPMU: refine kvm_pmu err msg when event creation failed v4.19.61: ba27a25df6df KVM: x86/vPMU: refine kvm_pmu err msg when event creation failed v4.4.187: 505c011f9f53 KVM: x86/vPMU: refine kvm_pmu err msg when event creation failed v4.9.187: 3984eae04473 KVM: x86/vPMU: refine kvm_pmu err msg when event creation failed v5.1.20: edadec197fbf KVM: x86/vPMU: refine kvm_pmu err msg when event creation failed v5.2.3: 9f062aef7356 KVM: x86/vPMU: refine kvm_pmu err msg when event creation failed
I think not, but hey, maybe you and Greg do.
Porting enhancements, even trivial ones, imo is not a great thing for stable branches.
My perspective is that only bug fixes should be applied to stable branches.
cheers, Joe